Influenced Quotes

He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.